Birsa’s resistance held great importance and inspired subsequent generations of Adivasi leaders to fight for the separate statehood of Jharkhand. However, he remained a relatively obscure figure ...

Birsa Munda, born on November 15, 1875, led a movement known as 'Ulgulan' (The Great Rebellion) among the tribals of Jharkhand. During this uprising in 1899, thousands of his followers proclaimed ...

The Santhal Rebellion (1855) and Birsa Munda's Ulgulan (1899-1900) were major stand-offs ... The Birsa Munda movement is ...

The British administration, alarmed by the rising rebellion, launched an aggressive campaign to suppress the uprising. In 1900, Birsa Munda was arrested by British forces in the forests of ...